Heritage Auctions is preparing for one of the biggest sports memorabilia sales in its history.

The upcoming Heritage Sports Collectibles Signature® Auction takes place across three days, and will offer close to 3,400 lots spanning over a century of sporting history. Covering everything from baseball and hockey to basketball and golf, the auction offers something for every kind of fan.

But football fans in particular should turn their attentions to the sale, as the company has described the event as “the most football-heavy edition in Heritage Auctions history” with a wealth of historic gridiron gear set to cross the block.

One of the sale’s highlights is the John Kindler Collection, described as “one of the most significant personal collections of game worn football jerseys ever assembled”. Kinder, who passed away in 1994, spent years accumulating more than 250 game-worn jerseys from the UCLA and the NFL and became one of the pioneers of the hobby.

Today the collection is estimated at more than half a million dollars, and after twenty years his family have consigned it to auction in what looks likely to be a landmark sale with Heritage. Highlights include collegiate jerseys from Heisman winners Barry Sanders, Tim Brown, Bo Jackson and Herschel Walker, and professional gamers from Tony Dorsett, Roger Staubach, Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Bob Griese and more.

“The presentation of The John Kindler Collection represents the most significant single-owner assembly of gridiron garments ever presented at auction,” said Chris Ivy, Director of Sports Collectibles Auctions at Heritage.

“This first installment, anchored by dozens of Heisman Trophy winners and Pro Football Hall of Famers, recalls the dawning era of the game used jersey hobby when a few intrepid souls operated within a network of equipment managers, coaches and players themselves to attain that next battle-scarred garment.”

Further top football lots include jewellery such as Lionel Aldridge’s 1968 Green Bay Packers Super Bowl II Championship ring, estimated at $30,000+; and the 1967 Pro Football Hall of Fame ring presented to New York Giants Defensive Back Emlen Tunnell – the first African-American player to be inducted – valued at $20,000+.

There’s also an incredibly rare unused ticket for Superbowl I in 1967, which saw the Green Bay Packers defeat the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, estimated at $15,000+.

The auction takes place in Dallas on November 6-8.